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FSX FSX vs. ESP SDK

At this point in time? Practically nothing except being a bit easier to read... ;)
 
Hi,

So if I dev with FSX SDK it will work with ESP?

Is there anything important I should know that is in the ESP SDK but not the FSX SDK?

Best regards,
Robin.
 
Well, yes it will. But, where will you find ESP these days? Prepar3D is the successor to ESP, and Lockheed-Martin provide their own SDK, which is not surprisingly identical to ESP and FSX+Acceleration.

There's no fundamentally difference between FSX SDL and the ESP SDK, and only a few new things (mostly bathymetry) different with the Prepar3D SDK and FSX+Acceleration SDK.
 
Considering most existing add-ons for FSX don't work in P3D, I'm not interested in it at this time. :) It is also unclear whether existing FSX devs will go to X Plane 10, given the licensing limitations of P3D (developers only) and the cost of it.

Thanks for the info regarding FSX/ESP SDK.

Best regards,
Robin.
 
:confused: Most addons will work in Prepar3d. It's the other way around that doesn't work so well, but only if the aircraft is using P3D's new DirectX gauges or some of the new Simconnect features. Should be just a simple drag-and-drop from FSX's Simobjects folder over to P3D.

Back to the original question, the FSX / ESP / P3D are almost identical. P3D SDK has everything from ESP relatively unchanged + a bit more. ESP SDK only has a few minor additions from FSX, namely documentation and an assembler for the .air file.

The ESP SDK isn't sold anymore (was $99), only the version on MSDN still exists. It doesn't come with any tools, just documentation. So just go with the P3D SDK, especially for the re-compiled modelling tools that allow you to use 3ds Max 2009+
 
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